High-Touch Intervention Yields Success for Patients with Diabetes, Hypertension
1-17-12
A new health behavior intervention has been spelling success for North Carolina patients with diabetes and hypertension. The intervention, Cholesterol, Hypertension and Glucose Education, or CHANGE, was piloted in a study led by principal investigator Hayden Bosworth, PhD, at Duke University Medical Center, and rolled out this spring to patients enrolled in the Northern Piedmont Community Care system. The demonstrated success of the program is leading to an expected expansion of the intervention to all North Carolina Medicaid practices in the coming months.
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Strategies to Reduce Health Disparities
11-14-11
At Finding Answers, we're working to find out what works—and what doesn't—to reduce racial and ethnic health care disparities. Our new grants portfolio is a resource for health care organizations…Read More |
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Care About Your Care
9-01-11
Care About Your Care is a month-long effort to raise awareness about what you can do to identify and get better health care.
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Using Peer Review Office Visits to Overcome Clinical Inertia and Reduce Disparities
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Study Shows that Culturally Appropriate Storytelling May Help Control Blood Pressure
1-18-11
A new study shows that culturally appropriate storytelling may help control blood pressure in African Americans with hypertension, according to an article published in the January 18 issue of the Annals of Internal Medicine. …Read More |
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Four Additional Sites Receive $400,000 to Evaluate Interventions in Diverse Settings
11-01-10
Health care organizations in California, Illinois, Indiana and Pennsylvania were awarded $1.6 million to support their efforts to eliminate racial and ethnic health care disparities in communities across the United…Read More |
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Empowered Patients Motivate Clinic to Seek Additional Resources
2-10-10
With extra support from their nursing staff, the physicians at Duke Family Medical Center have successfully empowered their Black patients to take control of their health, without extending the…Read More |
